Mobile, Alabama Wikipedia
Additionally, 1,785 slave owners in the county held 11,376 people in bondage, about one-quarter of the total county population of 41,130 people. It was the 27th-largest city in the United States and 4th-largest in what would soon be the Confederate States of America. By 1860, Mobile’s population within the city limits was 29,258 people. The […]
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